SENDS IN THE CLOWNS: One sits to pee, and the other's a cow!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

The New York Times keeps its trap shut: A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY, the flag above Fifth Avenue once said.

It flew repeatedly for several years. The leading authority explains:

A man was lynched yesterday flag

A flag bearing the words "A man was lynched yesterday" was flown from the national headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) between 1936 and 1938 to mark lynchings of black people in the United States. It was part of a decades-long anti-lynching campaign by the NAACP that began after the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington. The flag...was stopped from flying in 1938 after the NAACP's landlord threatened them with eviction if they continued the practice.

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The NAACP first flew the flag on September 8, 1936, to mark the lynching of A. L. McCamy in Dalton, Georgia. The flag continued to be flown at NAACP's headquarters at 69 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan the day after news of a lynching reached the organization. The 6-by-10-foot flag was simple and had the white text "A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY" on a black background. The bold typeface is thought to have been chosen to best convey the message quickly to a crowd of people.

It was a stunningly terrible time. We Blues sometimes avoid acknowledging the following fact but on balance, things don't typically reach that level of horror at the present time.

This very morning, the thought of that recurrent sign popped into our heads. At the direction of its CEO, the Fox News Channel had posted a video beneath this comical dual headline:

Something’s off with today’s Democrats: Greg Gutfeld
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the 'Gutfeld!' panelists discuss why Democrats are so unlikable.

Too funny! As you can currently see by clicking this link, that's the way the CEO's corporate lackeys decided to summarize the "issues monologue" which occurred at the start of Thursday night's Gutfeld! show.

Each evening, the host's "issues monologue" follows a couple of minutes of insults packaged in the form of jokes. But what made that presentation so funny?

Simple! That summary could be the summary of the "issues monologue" Greg Gutfeld has delivered almost every night over the past few months. 

That's been the subject of his monologue night after night after night! Once the termagant has told the world about how weird and unlikable Democrats are, a quartet of stooges then take their turn agreeing with what he has said.

Full disclosure! The termagant's insults don't come to an end when his "issues monologue" starts. Last night, his monologue was a bit more specific than much of his usual fare.

Last night, he issued a screed against the way the Nobel committee had failed to honor President Trump. As you can currently see at the Gutfeld! site, the summary of last night's issues monologue looks like this:

Greg Gutfeld: Trump’s a peacemaker until you piss him off
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the panel discuss President Donald Trump not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on ‘Gutfeld!'

So went last evening's monologue. Inevitably, the host's devotion to personal insult bled over into the monologue, as it always does.

Sad! The show began airing at 10 o'clock sharp. At 10:04 p.m., the world had already been gifted with this as part of the issues discussion:

GUTFELD (10/10/25): ...Some previous presidents certainly won it for doing a lot less than Trump did. Think about it. 

Barack Obama? He won it before he even sat down to pee in the White House bathroom. 

Should President Obama have received that prize? We can't quite tell you that.

That said, the tortured man who helms this show persistently tells his viewers two things. First, Barack Obama is really a woman. Either that, or Obama is gay.

The host thinks of that garbage as insults. 

Each night, the CEO pries the lid off the can and this is the moral and intellectual disorder which comes crawling out. We ask you to pity the many young men who are being encouraged to perceive the world in such ways.

That said, the little guy was far from done last night. He now listed the many peace deals he said President Trump has brokered.

No serious person seriously believes that Trump has brokered that many peace deals. No one believes that the listing is accurate—but on the Fox News Channel, the list the little guy rattled off is mandated corporate messaging.

As for the host himself, he seems to have a monster stuck in his soul—a monster which won't seem to let him go. He can't simply say whatever it is that he wants to say he believes. Instead, he has to say things of this type, as he did last night at 10:07 p.m.:

GUTFELD: That's Trump's [means of] persuasion—[he's a peacemaker] until you piss him off. 

Then you wake up with a horse in your bed—or a cow in your Irish pub.

[PHOTO of Rosie O'Donnell]

AUDIENCE: [Applause]

Rosie O'Donnell was cast as the cow. This is who the termagant is. We ask you to pity the "masculine children" who are being taught to behave in such ways. 

Nor is it just the guys! At 10:10 p.m., it fell to the former Oakland Raiders cheerleader to offer her thoughts on the topic at hand. At the New York Times, Gutfeld! hacks can now get scored as feminists even as they act out like this:

COMPAGNO: Obama was awarded it nine months after taking office—as you point out, before he even sat down to pee.

The cheerleader wanted to say it too! This is the corporate culture the CEO has chosen

There's much more to say about this heavily watched TV show, and about the rise of right-wing comedy as a messaging tool.

In the realm of political commentary, we'd date the practice to Rush Limbaugh's use of parodic elements on his nationwide radio show starting in the mid-1980s. In the realm of major stand-up comedy, we'd track it to Sam Kinison's comedy of screaming cruelty, but also to Andrew Dice Clay's arena-filling presentation of the angry white working-class man.

(We have a treasured memory about an admirable female comedian with whom we once worked in Atlantic City. She asked us one day, in complete sincerity, why she was being treated so badly as the girlfriend of one of the members of Kinison's posse. That was something like thirty years ago!)

There's also a great deal to say about the way people like Brother Gutfeld (and Kayleigh McEnany) got converted into ardent supporters of President Trump. According to the New York Times, the CEO called Gutfeld in one day, apparently in 2016, and apparently gave him the word about the possible need for that change.

(He may be sincere in his Trump love today. Back in June 2023, the Times seems to say that that's what happened back then.)

We're going to leave it here for today, with President Obama sitting to pee and O'Donnell compared to a cow. We're going to leave you with one other point:

All across the realm of Blue America's timorous and incompetent elites, the better people—the people who "went to the finest schools"—agree that they must never report and must never discuss what actually happens, all day and all night, on this endlessly ridiculous imitation of a "cable news" channel.

It's Suzanne Scott who produces this show. She sits on a massive yacht which bears an unusual name:

Sends in The Angry, Broken Toys, the name on her splendid yacht says.

Just so you'll know: The five women of The View were trashed two separate times during last evening's handful of opening "jokes."

First, they were compared to a band of "dogs." 

(Audience applause. "Too easy," the termagant said.)

Moments later, they were mocked for "the chum" they allegedly stuff in their mouths. This garbage gets dished every night.

This little guy seems to have a woman hatred which won't seem to let him go. If Blue America had a sexual politics (all too plainly, Blue America doesn't), we Blues might be able to see, report and discuss that fact about this 61-year-old furious soul.

He hails from a very sunny place. We feel sure that he could do better than this. We advise you to pity the child.


15 comments:

  1. We get it Bob.
    Gutfeld is funny to standard-issue Right-wing bigots.

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  2. Nice try, but I'm not going to start liking all Republicans, just because one of them shot Charlie Kirk to death.

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  3. "Something’s off with today’s Democrats: Greg Gutfeld"

    Of course there is: they're all retarded. Severely retarded. Idiots.

    And this is not a joke, nor an insult. It's a cold hard fact.

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    1. Republicans raising kids to shoot assholes, like Charlie Kirk, will save this country.

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    2. He doesn't exactly think it is worth watching. Watching it allows him to indulge his own hatreds and petty jealousies. Just like it does for the right wingers who watch Gutfeld's show. Somerby loves watching Tarlov be interrupted. He imagines himself speaking up to his own mother like that, talking over her when she did mean things to him, like sending him to Harvard.

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  4. Young men are not watching Gutfeld. Only old men in mental decline like David in Cal think that shit is worth watching.

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  5. Bob: “No serious person seriously believes that Trump has brokered that many peace deals.” This is the No True Scotsman fallacy.

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    1. Stop and look at the facts instead of applying fallacies. The reason no serious person believes that Trump has brokered that many peace deals is because he hasn't done it. Some of the conflicts Trump touts are imaginary, involving the names of countries half a continent away from each other (because Trump mixes up country names). Others have stated Trump had no involvement in resolving disputes he claims to have settled. As others have noted, even the peace plan proposed by Trump for Gaza was originated by Biden at the end of his term, derailed by Trump/Netanyahu for political reasons, then reinitiated so Trump could win the Peace Prize. There is no Scotsman involved in this at all. People who look at the facts do not believe Trump brokered that many deals because it is a fact that he did not. The people who look at facts are serious people. The ones who believe Trump's own lies are not serious people.

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  6. "We Blues sometimes avoid acknowledging the following fact but on balance, things don't typically reach that level of horror at the present time."

    There are so many things wrong with this offhand statement Somerby makes today:

    1. There are still lynchings. For example Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in 2020, for the crime of jogging. There have been a spate of young black men found hanging from trees over the past year, all deemed suicides.
    2. Does it make a difference if the killings of black men involve trees or guns instead? Cops are still killing black men and women.
    3. Is it better if ICE is killing men and women who they suspect of being "illegals"?
    4. Is it OK that ICE is targeting people because of their skin color and for speaking other languages, disappearing them and shipping them to other countries without due process? This is more widespread today than lynching was after Jim Crow.
    5. Does Somerby think it is unlikely lynchings will increase given Trump's approval of White Supremacist ideology and organizations?

    Since when do we measure people's current misery in terms of past atrocities. This grotesque remark displays the lack of empathy for black people embodied by those who have always resisted civil rights efforts. It is another example of his "black people had it worse under slavery so what do you have to complain about?" attitude that led him to say young black people today experience little real racism because racism is over. Never mind the lynching of James Byrd. That isn't as bad as during Jim Crow so if black people are complaining, it is only because the left has taught them to whine over imagined slights.

    This attitude is part of what makes Somerby racist. His belief that we blues only care about blacks and not about immigrants is another example of his racism. It is no less awful that ICE is targeting brown-skinned citizens because they have brown skin, detaining them and treating them with violence and disrespect on suspicion, without bothering to look at their passports and birth certificates granting them the same rights as other US citizens. Trump is trying to deny birthright citizenship on the basis of skin color and ancestry. He is rolling back the achievements of the civil rights era in terms of jobs and participation in wider society by black people and other minorities (yes, women too). Those bad old days are on the way back, and Somerby has the nerve to say it isn't so bad, because at least there aren't as many lynchings.

    Something is wrong with Somerby. It has always been wrong, but now it is slipping out in words more often and more blatantly. That is the effect Trump has on people everywhere and that is why the climate for minorities is worsening not improving. Blues recognize this. Why doesn't Somerby?

    I bothers me that a man with such attitudes was ever allowed in front of a classroom of young black children.

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  8. "It was a stunningly terrible time."

    THIS is a stunningly terrible time. It does not bear comparison to the decades when the right refused to pass an anti-lynching law, over and over, because that would allow crimes against black people to be investigated and tried at the federal level, instead of by the state and local legal systems infested with racists.

    Today's problems are much worse because racists under Trump have been setting aside laws to protect citizens in order to target and mistreat those who racists and misogynists dislike. Black men who spent their careers working up to positions of authority have been summarily fired without cause or redress. The same for black and white women, because misogynists believe women belong only in the home, bearing and raising children and tending to men. That revives the atrocities for women of the same time period as Jim Crow. Somerby ignores the long struggle (including deaths) of women working for their rights and vote. Now Republican men are saying out loud that women shouldn't be permitted to vote. But it is OK, according to Somerby, because at least they aren't being lynched (just dying while denied health care).

    These times are already much worse than as recently as the end of Biden's term and these times are headed quickly in the wrong direction. Somerby's failure to acknowledge that makes him very clearly not any kind of blue voter. And his statements today are rubbing blue noses in the gains made by Trump. But that's the kind of thing an ass like Somerby does, in a snide camoflaged way protected by the plausible deniability of words like "possibly" and "on balance" and "typically."

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    1. Extrapolation from Somerby's views on lynching:

      Even during the times when blacks were lynched, not every black person was murdered and hung from a tree, so how stunningly terrifying could it have been? Like today, only some brown people are being detained and only two have been shot in cold blood, so why is everyone so upset?

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  9. Trump's going to need to finish off the United States of America for good, if he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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  10. Men sit down to pee too. But how astute of Somerby to recognize that Gutfeld is calling Obama a girl and that it is an insult to be called anything feminine or associated with girls or women, because... why is that again?

    "Should President Obama have received that prize? We can't quite tell you that."

    At a minimum, Obama risked his life simply by running for the presidency and having a reasonable chance of winning. Somerby provides the answer in his own review of anti-lynch laws and why the South was so unwilling to pass them. Oh, Somerby didn't explain that? Did he give the impression racists just got tired of lynching blacks and gave up their hatred voluntarily? Did he forget to explain that it was the blue voters joining the civil rights movement that finally encouraged reluctant presidents to do things like segregate the Armed Forces during WWII and to enact federal laws integrating the civil service and prosecuting federal civil rights violations (such as lynching) and the Democratic Congresses that finally passed civil rights legislation integrating schools, protecting jobs, and prosecuting hate crimes, aided by voting rights laws that made black people and women part of the electorate so that they could protect their own rights and pressure their own legislators to do the right thing.

    Somerby skipped over all of that to tell blues that we are exaggerating the hate still existing against people of color, women, and other minorities. Trump isn't really dismantling all of the civil rights progress made since Truman, according to Somerby. Things are much better now (cough, cough, cough).

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